Identity Theft Protection

NCGS 132-1.8(g)

Any person preparing or filing a document for recordation or filing in the official
records may not include a social security, employer taxpayer identification, drivers
license, state identification, passport, checking account, savings account, credit
card, or debit card number, or personal identification (PIN) code or passwords in
the document, unless expressly required by law or court order, adopted by the State
Registrar on records of vital events, or redacted so that no more than the last
four digits of the identification number is included.

Any person has a right to request a Register of Deeds or Clerk of Court to remove,
from an image or copy of an official record placed on a Register of Deeds' or Clerk
of Court's internet web site available to the general public or on an internet web
site available to the general public used by a register of deeds or clerk of court
to display public records, any social security, employer taxpayer identification,
drivers license, state identification, passport, checking account, savings account,
credit card, or debit card number, or personal identification (PIN) code or passwords
contained in an official record. The request must be made in writing and delivered
by mail, facsimile, or electronic transmission, or delivered in person, to the Register
of Deeds or Clerk of Court. The request must specify the personal information to
be redacted, information that identifies the document that contains the personal
information and unique information that identifies the location within the document
that contains the social security, employer taxpayer identification, drivers license,
state identification, passport, checking account, savings account, credit card,
or debit card number, or personal identification (PIN) code or passwords to be redacted.
No fee will be charged for the redaction pursuant to such a request. Any person
who requests a redaction without proper authority to do so shall be guilty of an
infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) for
each violation.